08/25/2026
📢 FB, today was an AMAZING day for so many reasons ‼️
⭕️ It was a significant day where years of hard work, organizing, and community building came full circle.
📌Louisville’s 1st Community Land Trust, the Smoketown Community Land Trust sold its very 1st of many lasting affordable 🏡 today to an amazing homebuyer. 🔑
🏘️ River City Housing is grateful for the opportunity to partner with the Smoketown Community to help facilitate the creation of the Smoketown Community Land Trust, to help secure funding for the SCLT, and to be their 1st development partner to build the first 15 homes.
🧑🧑🧒🧒 But this entire process has been a group effort and we want to give credit where credit is due. So many people helped bring this all to fruition, so a huge thank you to all of our partners: Nachand Hyde Trabue, Jason Webb, Grounded Solutions Network, Kevin Dunlap, Jeana E. Dunlap, Metro Office of Housing & Community Development, Louisville Metro Housing Authority - LMHA, Louisville Affordable Housing Trust Fund, Center For Neighborhoods, Kentucky Housing Corporation, PNC, LISC Louisville, Community Foundation of Louisville, and Lozada Acosta with JLA Construction.
💐Kudos Boyd, Executive Director, for your incredible leadership and for pouring your heart and soul into launching the Smoketown Community Land Trust.
❤️A very special thank you to BATES Community Development Corporation and Smoketown Originals for trusting this process and for your love and commitment to Smoketown. Without your hard work and support this would not be possible. ✨
🖋️A HUGE thank you to John Borders and the entire Borders & Borders Real Estate Attorneys team, Radford with Park National Bank, Marcus Todd, and J Houston of LJH Infinity Realtors for getting us to the closing table!
🏡So FB please help us to congratulate our newest homeowner! 🎊 Welcome Home! 🚪